When Harry’s Bar opened its doors in Venice, Italy, in 1931, Giuseppe Cipriani Sr., the Cipriani family patriarch, probably never imagined his quaint bar turning into a global restaurant and hospitality brand. Giuseppe Sr. was still alive and present for the family business’ early expansion—Hotel Cipriani opened in Venice in 1958—but he wouldn’t see the fruits of his labor turn into the acclaimed Cipriani Italian restaurant in New York City, then grow limbs in 12 different cities including London, Hong Kong and now, Las Vegas.

To dine at the new Cipriani inside the Wynn Plaza Shops is to soak up all that history, to transcend the time and space continuum for just a moment and to imagine oneself sitting next to the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles and Truman Capote.